Chadia El Meouchi and Carine Farran jointly head up the practice at Badri and Salim El Meouchi LLP, which has a solid track record in advising on a broad range of work in the banking and capital markets space, including corporate and project finance, regulatory issues and lending matters. The firm is well known for representing Lebanese and Qatari clients in mandates. Firm chairman and senior partner Salim El Meouchi is a highly regarded practitioner.
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Key clients
- Banque Misr Liban
- Holdal Group
- Saint-Gobain Middle East
- Construction Development Company International
- Projects Development Company
- Intel
- Fransabank
- Ciment de Sibline
- Secil
- Simmons & Simmons LLP
- Audi Saradar Private Bank
- European Investment Bank (EIB)
- Pinsent Masons LLP
- Clifford Chance LLP
- White & Case LLP
- Deutsche Bank
Work highlights
- Continuing to assist a private client, from a Lebanese law perspective, regarding an international bank's amendment and restatement of a high-net-worth individual's loan, which is guaranteed by the individual's pledge on their shares in a Lebanese bank.
- Assisting a prominent multilateral financial institution with the restructuring and settlement of a substantial portfolio of loans, worth more than US$150m, for five leading banks in Lebanon.
- Acting as local counsel to an international engineering company regarding its entry into a revolving credit facility agreement, with an aggregate value of US$700m.
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Chadia El Meouchi, Carine Farran